5:7 They have committed treason
because they bore illegitimate children.
Soon
5:9 Ephraim will be ruined in the day of judgment!
What I am declaring
6:10 I have seen a disgusting thing in the temple of Israel:
there Ephraim practices temple prostitution
and Judah defiles itself.
8:9 They have gone up to Assyria,
like a wild donkey that wanders off.
Ephraim has hired prostitutes as lovers.
12:10 I spoke to the prophets;
I myself revealed many visions;
I spoke in parables
14:4 “I will heal their waywardness
and love them freely,
for my anger will turn